Soap-powdering machine.



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

WALLACE TILLSON, OF QUINCY, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TOWEST DISINFECTING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SOAP-PQWDERING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 13, 1908.

Application led May 14, 1907. Serial No. 373,560.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALLACE TILLsoN, a

citizen of the United States, residing in Quincy, Illinois,\haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Soap-Powdering`Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXactspeci'lication.

My improvement is intended to make it practical to use weights inpressing down soap against a soap'powdering device and the principaladvantage and obj ect of my invention is to prevent chattering andrattling of the soap, so as tc get a uniform product and smoothlyworking machine.

Figure l shows a section of a soap powdering machine seen from the side,Fig. 2 shows the same with the cover off seen from the iront and Fig. 3is a perspective view 0i the rollers `and lifter. A

At the bottom of an upright casing A, I place the owdering means B,which can be of any we l known kind and is moved by the handle C. Thecake of soap D rests on the powdering device and upon this cake reststhe pressing weight E. This weight is wedge shaped or tapered near thetop, or elsewhere if desired, so as to leave a tapering cavity on eachside, and in each of these tapering cavities I place a corrugated rollerF whose weight continuallywedges it down into the cavity in question.

It is immaterial to the scope of this invention whether the roughnessrelied upon to produce the gripping action within the wedgeshaped s acebe principally upon the surface ol the ro lers or on the parts withwhich they make contact, and indeed the degree of roughness of all theseparts is immateriall so long as they act as follows-As the weightdescends there is no opposition to the movement, but whenever there isany tendency to lift the weight, the rollers are instantly jammed in thewedge-sha )ed cavities and the weight is locked. To pull up both rollersF, I use a wire bail G which embraces cut out portions I-I in therollers, and over the rollers are pins J iiXed to the weight E. When onelifts on the bail, the rollers are freed at once and bear upward on thepins J to lift the weight.

What I claim as new isk l. In a soap powdering machine, a casing and aweight inside of it having a wedgeshaped space between them and awedging device lying in the wedge-shaped space.

2. In a soap powdering machine, a casing and a weight inside of ithaving wedgeshaped spaces between them, and rollers lying in saidspaces, all arranged so that the surfaces of contact between the rollersand the weight and casing are sufficiently rough to cause the rollers tolock the weight against movement upward.

3. In a soap powdering machine, a casing, a tapering weight inside itand a corrugated roller between the weight and casing.

4. In a soap powdering machine, a casing and an interior weightseparated by wedge shaped spaces, rollers in the spaces and a bailattached to the rollers for lifting them, all arranged so that thesurfaces oi' contact between the rollers and the weight and casing aresuliciently rough to lock the Weight against movement upward.

5. In a soap powdering machine, a casing and an interior weightseparated by wedgeshaped spaces, pins on the weight over the spaces,rough rollers under the pins and means for lifting the rollers upagainst the IDS. P WALLACE TILLSON.

Witnesses:

A. BRAY, EDWARD MILL.

